PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2019 Report, Based on 2017 Data)

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Toxic 100 Air Rank	Corporation	Toxic score (pounds released x toxicity x population exposure)	Millions of pounds of toxic air releases	Millions of pounds of toxic incineration transfers	EJ: Poor Share	EJ: Minority Share	% of toxic score from a single facility
1	Huntsman	25,585,371	1.09	10.71	16%	43%	73%
2	Boeing	19,887,117	0.28	0.02	17%	35%	100%
3	LyondellBasell	13,566,257	5.76	3.45	17%	67%	70%
4	DowDuPont	12,099,913	7.80	12.59	20%	39%	35%
5	Celanese	9,853,639	0.80	11.14	16%	60%	100%
6	Mitsui	6,287,446	0.27	<0.01	24%	63%	100%
7	BASF	6,174,596	4.87	6.85	18%	42%	70%
8	Eastman Chemical	4,786,673	5.41	0.47	21%	48%	76%
9	Royal Dutch Shell	4,029,725	3.33	1.79	17%	51%	56%
10	Oshkosh Corp.	3,867,689	0.19		18%	11%	100%
11	General Electric	3,510,955	1.63	0.03	24%	42%	46%
12	TMS International	3,285,626	0.04		29%	74%	53%
13	Berkshire Hathaway	3,225,154	2.37	1.07	18%	36%	24%
14	Arconic	2,724,604	0.39	<0.01	20%	50%	42%
15	Daikin	2,512,425	0.32	0.69	15%	61%	88%
16	Becton Dickinson	2,103,784	0.17	<0.01	20%	57%	40%
17	Koch Industries	1,979,121	29.25	1.96	20%	44%	43%
18	Ashland Inc.	1,948,731	1.71	0.37	20%	55%	73%
19	Exxon Mobil	1,866,932	8.39	1.10	24%	69%	21%
20	Rio Tinto	1,764,907	0.10		10%	29%	83%
21	Whirlpool	1,714,376	0.13		19%	14%	44%
22	National Oilwell Varco	1,656,218	0.06		16%	56%	48%
23	Kennametal	1,524,079	0.72		15%	24%	70%
24	Northrop Grumman	1,513,471	0.07	0.08	20%	15%	99%
25	Occidental Petroleum	1,480,780	0.71	4.35	19%	67%	31%
26	Freeport-McMoRan	1,387,221	3.83	<0.01	26%	56%	97%
27	Phillips 66	1,330,294	4.57	0.01	18%	61%	28%
28	Nucor	1,248,046	0.36		30%	66%	73%
29	Lincoln Electric Holdings	1,188,497	0.01	<0.01	14%	71%	100%
30	Albemarle	1,149,571	0.49	1.77	18%	67%	94%
31	Veolia Environnement	1,107,823	0.12	3.95	32%	63%	94%
32	Ametek	1,096,436	0.18		8%	28%	96%
33	Marathon Petroleum	1,023,497	4.57	0.07	20%	59%	41%
34	General Motors	958,296	3.36	0.02	16%	22%	85%
35	Stepan	902,404	0.31	1.80	11%	39%	77%
36	Valero Energy	885,925	4.77	0.07	21%	66%	20%
37	Praxair	857,700	0.27	<0.01	24%	47%	99%
38	ArcelorMittal	842,000	1.07	0.11	28%	59%	31%
39	PBF Energy	811,760	2.05	0.01	18%	64%	58%
40	Chevron	807,162	2.52	0.06	20%	76%	68%
41	United Technologies	799,155	0.06	<0.01	11%	25%	59%
42	Baxter International	799,016	0.08		12%	5%	100%
43	United States Steel	729,304	1.64	4.20	24%	57%	66%
44	Robert Bosch	657,228	<0.01		11%	31%	98%
45	Continental AG	646,231	0.21	<0.01	18%	66%	99%
46	Emerson Electric	643,976	<0.01		11%	36%	40%
47	Westlake Chemical	634,732	3.21	0.78	16%	32%	46%
48	Tenneco	603,508	0.05	0.01	16%	28%	36%
49	Allegheny Technologies	587,815	0.50	0.03	13%	11%	35%
50	Edwards Lifesciences	559,590	<0.01		52%	97%	100%
51	O'Neal Industries	548,532	0.01		24%	55%	96%
52	Medtronic	540,563	0.02	0.07	14%	46%	100%
53	Ingredion	528,219	0.64	<0.01	16%	37%	55%
54	Lockheed Martin	521,882	0.01	0.01	25%	75%	100%
55	Deere	510,001	0.17	<0.01	22%	34%	82%
56	American Electric Power	489,025	2.39		14%	9%	43%
57	Carpenter Company	478,930	0.02	0.10	20%	61%	70%
58	Total S.A.	450,096	0.81	<0.01	24%	52%	94%
59	TechnipFMC	420,463	<0.01		20%	74%	100%
60	Formosa Plastics	397,561	1.31	15.72	22%	67%	65%
61	Huntington Ingalls Industries	374,187	0.28	0.04	24%	67%	88%
62	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	368,213	1.14	<0.01	22%	74%	65%
63	Colfax	356,881	<0.01	<0.01	31%	9%	99%
64	Cardinal Health	355,693	<0.01		29%	64%	100%
65	Komatsu	353,087	0.01		24%	59%	61%
66	Targa Resources	351,290	0.04	<0.01	23%	86%	100%
67	3M Company	340,706	1.98	8.83	16%	48%	46%
68	Trinity Industries	319,430	0.78		19%	40%	38%
69	Eaton	307,901	0.03	<0.01	11%	31%	63%
70	Owens Corning	307,488	0.98	<0.01	19%	42%	18%
71	International Paper	305,425	39.94	<0.01	20%	39%	18%
72	Carlyle Group	305,028	0.40	0.01	16%	50%	49%
73	Henkel	291,938	0.05	0.06	26%	51%	68%
74	DTE Energy	291,204	1.23	<0.01	28%	51%	96%
75	Archer Daniels Midland	284,629	11.10	<0.01	16%	20%	58%
76	HeidelbergCement	283,360	0.49		9%	28%	78%
77	Shin-Etsu Chemical	282,265	0.46	<0.01	20%	54%	62%
78	BP	268,416	0.98	0.01	16%	35%	59%
79	Ecolab	265,619	0.09	1.99	16%	71%	57%
80	SPX FLOW	260,254	<0.01		12%	47%	64%
81	Caterpillar	256,264	0.07	0.01	12%	42%	59%
82	Johnson & Johnson	254,038	0.04	0.04	13%	47%	70%
83	Bayer	253,865	0.37	2.23	17%	28%	73%
84	Medline Industries	250,719	0.02		13%	46%	73%
85	Graphic Packaging	246,689	5.02		32%	42%	81%
86	ABB Ltd.	239,992	0.10	0.01	14%	21%	90%
87	Compass Group	238,459	0.02		11%	26%	100%
88	Leggett & Platt	229,527	0.16	<0.01	9%	35%	96%
89	ChemChina	223,878	0.25	0.54	25%	81%	98%
90	Olin	214,431	0.27	1.52	22%	63%	65%
91	PPG Industries	213,728	0.22	0.18	15%	22%	70%
92	Saint-Gobain	211,413	0.73	0.08	15%	32%	60%
93	Cargill	206,123	3.93	0.01	16%	27%	58%
94	AK Steel	197,877	0.21	0.02	20%	23%	36%
95	Nissan Motor Company	189,485	0.91	0.01	10%	30%	94%
96	Schlumberger	189,054	<0.01	0.11	25%	75%	88%
97	Apollo Global Management	186,494	0.44	0.07	19%	32%	25%
98	Pemex	182,123	0.14	<0.01	18%	68%	100%
99	Parker-Hannifin	172,790	0.07	<0.01	16%	24%	69%
100	HollyFrontier	165,897	1.56	<0.01	17%	30%	38%

Explanatory notes (For details, see the technical notes).

This edition of the Toxic 100 Air ranks companies by comparative chronic human health risk from air pollutants directly released or transferred to incinerators (and not destroyed) from large facilities in the US in 2017.

RSEI score: Estimated population chronic health human health risk from air releases and incineration transfers reported to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for the 2017 Reporting Year, as computed by the US EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI ver. 2.3.7) from quantity released, toxicity of chemicals, and population exposure. Data are adjusted by the Corporate Toxics Information Project (CTIP) for subsequent revisions to TRI data, including where available revisions to the share of hexavalent chromium in chromium releases.
Source: US EPA and Corporate Toxics Information Project (CTIP).

Quantity of toxic air releases and incineration transfers: Millions of pounds of toxic chemicals released to the air on-site or transferred offsite for incineration in the TRI 2017 Reporting Year, without adjustment for toxicity or population exposure.
Source: US EPA.

Environmental Justice (EJ): Poor Share and Minority Share: Shares of the total population health risk borne by people living below the poverty line or by people in minority racial/ethnic groups. In the U.S. population, 13 percent live below the poverty line and 39 percent are members of minority racial/ethnic groups.
Sources: US EPA, US Census, and CTIP.

Coverage: This table presents the RSEI Hazard score companies that appear on the Forbes World's Largest Public Companies list (2018, first 500 companies only), the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies list (2018 ranking), the Fortune 500 list (FY 2017-2018), the Fortune Global 500 (FY 2017-2018), or the S&P 500 as of 2/1/2019. Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of late 2018.
Source: CTIP.

The links from each parent name lead to an application that gives detailed facility and chemical information about the company. You can also search for companies not on the Toxic 100 Air. For more information on the data, see the technical notes.